Where the word comes from
Mestre Irineu, the founder of Santo Daime, is credited with coining the term. It builds on the Portuguese verb mirar, to gaze at or contemplate — the same root that gives mirante, a lookout point high enough to take in a wide landscape. Miração fuses that idea of contemplation (mira) with ação, action, so the word itself holds looking and doing together.
Practitioners describe it as a term that named something Irineu had lived through directly, during his own early visionary experiences with the sacrament, rather than a concept borrowed from elsewhere.
Seeing and acting at once
Within the tradition, a miração is understood as more than a passing image or hallucination. It is described as carrying both a contemplative dimension — insight, symbol, recognition — and an active one, in which the visionary content is meant to inform how a person moves through their own life afterward.
Daimistas also speak of the need for discernment: distinguishing a genuine miração from ordinary imagination, wishful thinking, or mental projection is treated as a skill developed over time within the tradition, not something automatic.